The Sun. — London, England, 1818-01-03 00:00:00

COUNTRY. We have inserted several grficiesinliradr"to `dissuade oflr Countrymen' from 'engaging in the cause of the Spanish Instirgento, add have stated :the. evils and privation's ivliich Many of the Adven lurers'in'this romantic Expedition 'have 'suffered, • . and th which they mtrst inevitably be exposed.- -The tAlokving, letter from The'Glasgoic Herold, 'of the - 29th ult. contains such pertinent and just Tdtpa:t ks ott the subject, that we 'submit it - to uur 'Readers. "" SOUTH AMMIICAN PATRIOTS. . 4rg TO TUE BbITOR. " 'Sir,Sonte of the Papers have been contend ing whether the late probibitiim of our Govern- Inent against serving in the armies now at war in South America, was or was nut a judicious or constitutional measure. Withont entering on this which does not appear to n►e of vet y great importance, I would hint, tl►at the necessity for the measure, as applying to the Gentlemen of the Army, excites no very ple4sant kelings. if it be the fact, that many British Officers either al ready serve, or were preparing to serve, in what is called the Patriotic Army of South America, there appears to me to he :!otnething in their con duct which is more suitable to the character of Frenchmen than of Englishmen, and lover of Ilk country would, I believe, wish that these cha racte:.s should assimilate. " The great enemy to the peace of Europe for the last 25 years has.not been the French Direc tory, nor the French Consul, nor the French Em peror, but the French Army, which considered war as a trade, found it a profitable trade, and had no more notion of ceasing trout that trade, with out maing a fortune, than a tradesman has of shutting op his shop and retiring, noleSs he has attained the same object. The French fought, and fought equally well, under all .their revolu tionary forms of Government, and shetved to the last, •even to the battle of Waterloo, that fighting, add fighting only, no matter with whom, or for what, was their employment. It is also now ae knowledged that the remaining security of Europe depends on depriving them of this spirit ; and. that ell-our fears of future mischief arise front the pro spect of trusting the French fighters with the tools of their trade. " It is, therefore, quite in nature, quite in con sistency, that they should visit any or every to reign country, where there is a probability that they may get employment in the fighting hoe. But it is not so With the British Officer. A few romantic and turbulent spirits may traverse Eu rope, 0 America, in quest of bloodshed, no matter who may be the sufferers or the gainers ; but this is not the duty or the feeling of a Briton, whose principle it has always been to enter into no service but that of his country; and even that he has been knowu to quit, when:he not been cots inced that the war she was engaged in was a !oar of self-defence, and therefore both just and ne cessary. 11Tar, we know, or ought to know, is a calamity of the highest order. It is our duty to. lessen its hurt ors, and to shorten its duration. But this can never be done, if any class of meir are to consider themselves enlisted into a profes-•, siOn, the dirties of which are Dever to cease. The wind of that Officer must be compounded of very. odd materials, who, instead of lamenting the ne- , cessity of taking the lives of his fellow-creatures, in defence of the laws and liberties of his country, 'no sooner has performed thiS painful task, than be goes , in search of fresh opportunities to in crease the sum of human misery in countries where he can have no interest ; and becomes the basest of hirelings, where he can have no sym pathy with his employers. " This, I repeat it, is not,'l hope, the genius and spirit of Britons ; and must end in the de struction of the country in which it is encouraged. IF the army is to be considered as affording per manent employment—if it be thought a hardship that its duties should cease at the hour of peace— and if officers csotsitler themselves as ill treated where no more blood is to shed—then we exactly assimilate with the worst features of ,the French army ; and nowill be safe but that which is perpetually at war, no matter upon what pre tence. " Other evils will naturally arise from the same source. it is sometimes had enough when Go vernmeut enter into treaties offensive and defen sive ; when, however, the error is discovered, it may be remedied, and sometimes it will cure it self ; but the peacepf the world will be insecure indeed; if mobs of unauthorised Soldiers are al lowed to engage in the contest between the Go rernments end the People of foreign nations, Merely because the happier state of their own country has returned the sword into its sheath.— in vain (to we pray for that blisSful period when wars shall cease throughout the world, it we le galize the travels of a set of Quixotes through distant lands, to foment quarrels, redress injuries which they do not feel, and engage in contests which they cannot tinderstatid. British Officers know their duties, and the limits by which they are bound. They extend to the utmost verge of their own country ; but they extend no farther. It 'it he a disadvantage to re turn to civil life, with a diminished income, they, entered upon their prole§sion on those tel were not told that when dishanded at home, they might join - the hordes of banditti and ma sanders in other countries ; -nor do 1 believe that, there : are many who have been so far deluded as' to tlliok otherwise. But that sorife haVe, can no longer admit of a doubt. The late proclamations Were tieCtssary'to'recsl them to 'the of the true genius anal spirit of a British officer; Th e a nts f) f- cr i m ping o ,have .no doubt been ern phosie:4l,;- and if we at e": : riglirly, informed, have b ss iippi?rtutately too successful:' Butt it per liallys,i,Yetinore to Intlanreoted that'the'press has been folibiye(l 'mars;nilvitiss the si.;ecesses and of-flusSourb American Patriots, althoogli :us iittherttiecan be obtained Oita's= id their pi s i ;goes l i Vsi their- principles. It is liiii'species Of-mental crimping of which I coq:- plain, as equally dishonourable with that which respects the body of him who is to be trepanned ; •hut, against which I hope it will be the mine easy to guard, when our officers have more 'coolly 'com pared their character with that of the soldiers of Buonaparte, and have comidered that there is nu obstruction at this moment to the permaneik peace Of Europe, hut what arises from the tipiTit Which that tyrant encouraged. I ant, Sir, your's ) Ye MILES." Wrong The (Ipth(in) CorrealitiMent, Dec. 'A . U.) The verdicts of acloittal, pronounced by three successive Juries, on the trials of Mr. Ilene, for blasphemous and seditious Libels,, appear to have created swore surprise on this side of the Channel. it is considered somewhat extraotdi nary, that blasphemous and seditious Libels, cal culated not only to degrade Religion and its worship, but designed to bold nut his Majesty's Ministers to hatred and contempt; should be so favoured by Jurymen. It is natural that then should be affected alter this manner at first ; hut it would he more extraordinary than the verdicts taken collectively, if there did not prevail a pas sion for publications of the nature for which Mr. Hone was indicted, after the very great pains that have been taken, for several years past, to bring Religion into derision, and Government under pet- pular hatred. The ptiblic mind has now been so fausiliarised with seeing sacred things prophanedi and serious things treated with levity—with see ing the great covered over with libel, and the lowly excited to trample on them, as monsters — that the wonder would be, to pick out Juries that should hold the balance of JuNtice with an im partial hand, w here the conduct or. characters of turn of eminent station was in the scale. All the speeches, and all the writings, wbich have been let loose upon the people, to deprave their prin ciples, and inflame their passions—to hoot Priests from the Altar, and Kings from the Throne, would be only so much sound and fury, and sig nifying nothing, if they did not produce certain effects ; and what effct can be more obvious and ordim;:y, than that Juries should turn inyon pro secutions at the suit of the Crown, for offences against the welfare of Religion, or the security of the State ) " Over and over again we have endeavoured to impress upon the public mind a salutary sense of the common danger to be appt eheuded from the energy and perseverance of the Jacobin . prin ciple. We have laboured to show hOw it works. by SYSTEM—how indefatigably it pursues its ends—and how inevitably it must accomplish its favourite purposes of anarchy and revolutionif it be not opposed - by the sound part of society, with a zeal and, a spirit equal to its own. At present we do not mean to resume this subjf-et. Our . readers, who have attended to our observations, cannot but perceive how plainly the character of passing events is justifyir.g, train day to day, what we have been telling them so often, and for so king a time ; and we rather believe that they can not reflect very seriously upon this subject, with out concluding, that the great foundations of public tectnity require some great additional-sup port. Does any Marl imagine that the writings which have issued so long from the Press were 'to produce no consequences ? Can the efforts of years to eradicate every sentiment and notion of loyalty be unavailing EAMBURGII PAPERS. MENTZ, DEC. 22.—The Central Committee for• the affairs of the Navigation of the Rhine, in duced by repeated attempts to obtain exemptions from the payment of the tolls on the Rhine, orders the publication of the 25th article of the Aet of the Vienna Congress, which is as follows :--- " No . application for exemptions from the tolls, or for a diminution of them, can be attended to, either by the Collectors of the Tolls, or even by the Central ComMittee ; and this without any distinction respecting the nature, the origin, or the destination of the cargoes and goods ; and without regard to the persons, corporations, ci ties, or states, to which they belong, and by whose orders they are trail potted. And the Central Committi:e orders, that from the Ist of January, 1818, all articles, without exception, which are shipped on the Rhine, are subject to the payment Of the tolls on that-river. Dane at Mentz, Dec 9, 1817." DEC. 23.—His Highness Prince Hardenberg, who arrived on Sunday, left us again yesterday, to repair to the PrUssian Provinces on the Rhine, where 140 Statesman was ever more eagerly ex pected. The confidence of the inhabitants of, Chess Provinces in his liberal sentiments and his ex;;erience is unlimited, and will, w i e doubt not; be justified by the happiest results. SWITZERLAND, DEC. 20.—We will not contra dict (b ecause we ar e Ho t informed upon the sub ject) the reports which, probably led by some expressions in the Journal de Commerce, speak more -faVollrahle sentiments in the French Go vernment towards the trade of Switzerland. Pot our parts, we %vitt wait for the results of these fine promises, and see quid.dignum. tanto fiffet hic promissor hiatu ? The Great Council of Berne has adopted, by a very great majority of votes, as a basis of the Matritnonial Code now under revision; the prin ciple that children born out of wedlock are to have the•name, the rank, and civil rights of the mother, and the father . (known or proved to be such) to contribute a proportionate sum to their support. 'Phis resolution is, in fact, only a modi fied revival ,of the law which prevailed front the year 1585 to 1712. 11111. AN, DEC. 17.—His Imperi4 l Majestynas : . given two patents, and an exclusive privilege. for • five years, to the celebrated mechanist, Locatilli, in the whole kingdom of Venice and Lombardy, for the manufacture and -sale of two machines of his invention : one of them serves to raise water in such quantity and to such a height es no other machine yet discovered can effect ; the seennd is for the porPose of threshing out corn in a very ad vantay,tous manner. 171 S ESStD S4Thal.S. I Meeting took place yesterdayat _the King's licad,•Poultrr o with the* object of proposing and adopting sonic speedy lineal's of relieving the nu- . nterinis distres'sed Seamen with whom- the streets of London are daily ctowtted. No other notice having been given of the Meet ing than that by placardU, it was not inmerottsly attended. There were, however, certain plans proposed, which promise th at much will be. done on Mondaynext, when they are to be subniitted to the consideration of the public. It appeared from the statement. Of the Chair man, Mr. M'AttLEr, that the subject had pre viously undergone sonic investigation, and that a Committee had been formed with the view of fix ing 'Ton the most eligible mode of facilitating the views of tlidse who proposed the Meeting.;— Amongst the names of the Committee, those of the late and the present Lord Mayor appeared. The LORD MAYOR declined taking the Chair, and begged to be understood, in doing so, as not acting from any other feelings tban those of hu manity. He was apprehensive of the conse- quences of.giving his public sanction to a meeting, the result of which might be a prodigious influx of the, distressed, and those pretending to be so, to the City of London ; an event that would add to the exhibitions of misery that daily took _ _ His Lordship was informed by the Chairman that the Members of the Committee had consi dered the probability just alluded to, and there fore acted with the delicacy so necessary upon a subject which might have Met with premature publicat ion. Mr: PAINe, Clerk to the Magistrates at the Guildhall Police Office, begged to be allowed to say a few words. kle was in the habit of witnets'- ing scenes of great distress, and he thisted there would be a co-operation between the Meeting and the Magistrates of Police upon a subject so itro;. portant. Ile then read the petition which he bad presented to the Conti of Common. Council on the nth of December, and expressed a hope that, as the Committee on City Lands, to which it was referred, could not recom mence • their functions for some tithe, the interval would -be occupied in providing - some means of - relict. The London Workhouse, esta blished in the reign of Charles 11., - in his Opi nion, presented an asylum in which starvation, at least, could be prevented, and at a future period the expellees might be defrayed, by a regulation directing that the different parishes should pay in proportion to their extent and ability. In answer to the observation of the Lord Milor with-respect to the probable influx of strange vagrants, he had to say, that the City of London cotild only act as it was in the habit of doing when the Hospitals were full ; there being no more room, those ‘vlio could not be accommodated were obliged to wait, till there was, anti the City of London wotOti, by art exertion hi this cause, shew that an example to other parts of the country. was not wanting. The CDAIRMAN said, the attention of those as sembled was to be directed to the object of dis tinguishing between - worthy and unworthy oh , jeers ; that the former might. he, provided. with employment in ships,- and that onpostors might be treeed wit h the wholesome seyerity'prot itled by Act of Parliament. There were tnittilleis of seamen about the streets in a state of dise a se. .and naked ness in consequence of their own vices, and such, men could not be taken into service until these two very revolting objections were removed. Th,e doubt whether good or harm was to arise f r om - what the Meeting might determine upon, was itself dis:ressing, but something tiviSt be at tempted, and the concurrence of the Magistrates would render great facilities to the investigation. The LORD MAYOR saw plainly that thelnotive was excellent ; but he regretted ..to say, that by far the greater nuMber of those who claimed cha rity as seamen were impostors. There were, be ,. . sides, many foreign seamen about the streets, whom he had sent to the different Consuls in vain, for they bad rather beg than go home, and ac cordingly betook themselves to the accustomed demand upon the compassion of Englishmen. His Lordship again expressed his fear of accumulating distresses. A long conversation then took place upOn the probable Means of distinguishnig between de serving and undeserving objects. 'One of the .111 embers observed, that the distress they had to relieve was merely of a temporary na ture, and that next Spring would present the most grateful mode of disposing of the poor seamen, in the departure of the East and West India fleets', in which they could find instant employment. It was suggested that a house, 'or a ship, should be hired immediately. for the purpose of. accom modating those who should. upon examina-' don be deemed worthy . objects ; that public notice should be given of the place %vhere Captains of ships could be supplied with men, and that the Police officers should take all persons of the description alluded to, Who were found beg ging, to an office hired by the 'Con - mince, two or three of whom should attend daily, assisted by a per Son of sea-faring intelligence, for the purpose of examining into Ilse cases of those brought be fore them. A doubt having been entertained of the power to compel those who were unwilling to attend the office, • The Loan MAyou said lie should give directions ter the Police Oilice.rs of the City to act according, to these suggestions. It was agreed upon all silts that it was indis pensibly necessary to the ship -owners„ and all others employed in commerce, to have the strrets cl those begging sailors ; for many of the m contracted, ( cte 4 l, from the necessity of begging, a f on d- Hess for it, and it might be found diaicult to induce thenyto work after haVing had a snee tss . ful experiment of a lazy life: At an early pe. riod of the - Meeting it was mentionsd 01;14 application to the Admiralty . ‘votild be ad visable ; but that hint was soon tyjected,:npon the ground that the observance of official forms . would make starvation inevitable by eelay:— With respect to those whine chararterS were had, act as abl e -b o di e d and who were not qoalified to seamen, it seemed to be undeistood thlt thetCom mittee should endeavour to proente employment f or them of a different kind, And, that there should be a recommendation to ',occupy them, atnougst. • . . • ntli'e - i thinks - , in ciel . riii!".Ctil'e 'n'firtgq'ti• , 'll ,-,! th' f: Tharnes, and repais 'tog. the .roati.s abmit the ~ :e. too , ?!; - s. . One.Of dye Members said, he wl , cont;inrcd able-todird seain.,in would beg. .11..; noble pi At, %route. prevent Anothet tlec larrtl that sopli a decla.ration was completely erroneous.. IL: knew it to be a fact, that there were many :n-tty offirl.r . s who served "tong 'and well, and who,. being ec titiced to the akernatire- 'Of begging or dying, adopted the for Mer. The Captain of a merchantrnan said, tie prailice followed by West indiamen, cc discharging their Men upon goi-o into :dock, wis the cause of a ;;teat deal of the wisely that existed... When at Hull and other docks the men_ were tetained ; acid he could flat see u hy the West et dia Docks shotdd nut adopt such a s.y.tent. It he had a SOD, awl was it) poor 61 . volt:stances ) he never would put him on board a Wust Indiaman,,for that rest on. The Meeting then, amongst others, voted the following reconimendations, which are to be sub mitted at the General A leeting : " That a Committee be appointed to engage a vessel, in which poor seamen shall be lodged and stuitained until provided with a situation. " That the Members of the Committee shall attend to the cases brought before them daily at an (ace chosen for [hut purpose ; and that the Magistrates be solicited t o , g i ve t h e i r as sistance in having all vagrant seamen brought be fore the Committee, and that temporary suste nance be H 1 1 .0! dVd." Thanks having been- given to the Imrd Mayor For his promptitude in offering; his assisrince, anti to the Chairman for his conduct in the Choir, the Meeting broke up., MURDER. The foll Owing paragraph contains some further pa.ticulais respecting the imirder in Derbi'shire : Between 7 and 8 o'clock on Thursday evening, th e I Bth ult. a most barbarons' and inhuman mur der was committed at the village of i lvaston, aboUt 3 miles south of DerhY, upon the,h'i;dy of , n elder ly woman; of the name of Cirztorex, wife of sa man also far advanced in life, who occupies a few acres of land, and keeps three or four cons. The poor woman had just been to the cow. shed, which is very•near the house, to ntilk, and not re turning so soon as expected, the old m an w ent t r , ascertain what had become of her, when he found her stretched on the ground in a speechle s s state. Her head Wls found, upon examinatiOn; to be , lacerated and stnashed in a manner tOci shocking to describe: She died soon attet removed to the house,• - mithout being enabled tea give the least hint of her niurderer. f tio , !",icioa falling upon t wo young men, the sons of her hus band by a former marriag,e, on the grotind of their hiving, been at variance with their hirlf mother, they , weie apprehended forthwith, and underwent a strict examination, the result of ivhi e h induced; the Magistrates to set them at libertrWittnittiany hesitation. It appears, .however,. that at man - of the mutt of Jackson, a cotton or calico- weity'er, with who m one of the young 6: a:torex's wotitediat Alvaston, is in eostody t.rongly-siispiered.o,f having committed the.bori deed., to ,a , vpid went of some moncy - whieh Ise owed lit the, on) conple, as a proniksory note, or niernorandrun of th e debt, was loom!' 'op - on film s , whieh , the oiit woman genii dly earried tier pot) , : et, j111( . 1 not entrust it in.fier care, of his •, . , very ilaiinrstate -Of health. • • On niday last, a.Ol, about -elcvetr years old, the danght it of charlcs Powset.., labour inn may; of BrOomlield, Essex, who was,left at home witty her little 'Sister totak Care of the. house, by some accident set her linen clothes on fire, by which sh.a was so shockingly burnt that she exp;red tl e next day. It is supposed that the child aiteiipted o lace up her shoes, with her back to the fire-place, and on discoyeting her clothes to be_ on fire, she ran to a. tub o f water i n the yard, ut this was:, unfortunately, so frozen over, as not to be AceeS"- sible,'and her presence of mind w as t has rendered unavaili ng . Th e mother of the child lay a corpsein th e h ouse at t h e time of the accident. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FLU DAY, JA:C 2. Anisterdarn ...... .. '37 6 B. 2 Us. Ditto, at Sight , .37 0 Amster dam Ditto, at Sight - II ' 7 Rotterdam ll It 2 Us. Antwerp - Hantburgh Altona Paris, 3 Day's dale . ' Ditto Rourdeaux, ditto , , 24 60 Frankfort on the Main ~. Madrid , • atif Effect ive Cadiz i 3B Effettiva Seville ' ..... , 37i • Gilboa 33 Gibraltar Leghorn - - - Genoa... 47 --=---Venice Malta... —494—Naples 424 l'alcrino Lisbon - 58. ' • Oporto , , Rio Janeiro 65 n„blip.... ..... 8..... Curb..... 83 per Cent. Agio of the 11;u1k on Holland.... 2 per Cent. Portugal Gotd, in Coin 1.4 0 6 per Or. Fore - reit Gold, in Bats' 4 0 6 New Dauhlootis .... •. • . 4 0 0 - COAL MARKET, JAN. 2. Siiip‘at Market. Sl , ips sold. Price. . . 85 ...... •...... 395. Od. to 455. dd., 41; Sunderland ..44..... 38 5. 0d: to 41s. 0(1. I Elgin Main. —s. od. to —s. od. IRT44. On'Thursday morning las ß t, at his house icy Ilawland-street,„ , Fitzroy=sqoare, the Laity of William Nodes, Esq. of a son. . . • • 'MARRIED. ' • - e then• ' lst instant, at St. Matgaxet's, Westminster, .InsePh-v Frhilcis Esq.Of the Exchequer, toEliza., eldest (laugh , ter of Mr. Niano.; of Purliainent-siteet. • Drr.n. On the adth bit. tuurth daughter 0f.. - Janief- , .. iluuwens, Esq. an 4 niece to Sir 'Selson Itycroft,. On Monday looming list, at her son's house OH 101 r . Mrs. Jane Waite, relict of the late-•Cb r acles , Waite, in thV Stit year of her age. LONDON: Printed b J. B. C.IRSTAYRS, of No. 2.:1,...n,reat. Ormond-street, (arevn•square; Atta publithed bv, - W. SCRIPPS, f No..7„.Sotitki Nolti.n.street, , nt Se7::sr Office, No. 1.12, Strand; where Advettiletnews,, ' 2. i Latl . rs, &v. (poit-paid) must be addressed.